ShaunMT's Modified ROM for Nextbook NX785QC8G (Support Thread)

[cpshelley]

Testing is done...

I'm working on the public release right now...

ShaunMT

oh OK awesome! looking forward to it!

[shaunmt]

I have released TWRP for the Nextbook NX785QC8G

ShaunMT-s-TWRP-Recovery-For-The-Nextbook-NX785QC8G-NXM865FD_WMDE-(Download-Thread)

ShaunMT-s-TWRP-Recovery-For-The-Nextbook-NX785QC8G-NXM865FD_WMDE-(Support-Thread)

[B-Man]

ShaunMT-s-TWRP-Recovery-For-The-Nextbook-NX785QC8G-NXM865FD_WMDE-(Download-Thread)

ShaunMT-s-TWRP-Recovery-For-The-Nextbook-NX785QC8G-NXM865FD_WMDE-(Support-Thread)

Great! Thank you for everything. Are the parameter patches still coming tonight as well?

[shaunmt]

Great! Thank you for everything. Are the parameter patches still coming tonight as well?

I was planning to release them tonight as well, but I've been sitting here thinking that I should package and release a TWRP flashable version of my ROM first, so that people have an easy way to reflash the ROM if something goes wrong with the patch install. For example, the backup and restore of the current system partition could fail if the user runs out of space on their external sd card during the patch install...

I think I'm going to call it a night, get some sleep and continue working on getting the rest of the files released tomorrow...

ShaunMT

[Micheal]

Take your time to get it right. We appreciate all your hard work and skull sweat.

[B-Man]

I was planning to release them tonight as well, but I've been sitting here thinking that I should package and release a TWRP flashable version of my ROM first, so that people have an easy way to reflash the ROM if something goes wrong with the patch install. For example, the backup and restore of the current system partition could fail if the user runs out of space on their external sd card during the patch install...

I think I'm going to call it a night, get some sleep and continue working on getting the rest of the files released tomorrow...

ShaunMT

Makes sense. No worries, take your time.

[AMMO]

Thanks so much for the hard work to make a budget tablet reach its full potential. Looking forward to the partition release!

[cpshelley]

shaun, how did you package/repackage the boot (kernel) image when you made modifications to it? there are some things i want to change in the init scripts.. i dumped the boot image using dd in terminal on the tablet, and i can unpack the boot image just fine, but every time i try to re-pack and flash it, the repacked image comes out to 10mb instead of the 12mb for the original image, and flashing it to the tablet gets me a bootloop. i've tried with 2 different packing/repacking tools with the same results... any info you can give me as to how you accomplished this??

[shaunmt]

shaun, how did you package/repackage the boot (kernel) image when you made modifications to it? there are some things i want to change in the init scripts.. i dumped the boot image using dd in terminal on the tablet, and i can unpack the boot image just fine, but every time i try to re-pack and flash it, the repacked image comes out to 10mb instead of the 12mb for the original image, and flashing it to the tablet gets me a bootloop. i've tried with 2 different packing/repacking tools with the same results... any info you can give me as to how you accomplished this??

I use a unix program called imgrepackerrk.

An alternative, and probably easier method for testing your changes, would be to use init.d scripts.

I enabled init.d support in my ROM.

If you're not familiar, init.d support allows you to extend init.rc via scripts placed in the init.d folder which are automatically ran by init.rc during boot.

ShaunMT

[cpshelley]

I use a unix program called imgrepackerrk.

An alternative, and probably easier method for testing your changes, would be to use init.d scripts.

I enabled init.d support in my ROM.

If you're not familiar, init.d support allows you to extend init.rc via scripts placed in the init.d folder which are automatically ran by init.rc during boot.

ShaunMT

ah OK so these are rockchip image formats? that might explain the issues.. I know I can use init.d but I'd rather just modify init.rc directly instead of scripting it.. is there a version of that image repacker for Windows?

[shaunmt]

Yes, this model is a rockchip device.

I dont know about any windows tools. I try to avoid using windows for android, especially when working with unix file systems like ext4 or ubifs that cant be mounted on windows. Copying the files to an ntfs file system on windows messes up the unix file permissions and symbolic links used by android.

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[infirno77]

ShaunMT... Rocking your twrp on oma's ROM. Used arctool apk to install oma's cwm, then flashed your zip. Awesome! Can't wait for the updated ROM!! 👍👍

[cpshelley]

i prefer Shaun's ROM... I haven't tried oma's but Shaun's is closer to stock.

[infirno77]

I prefer ShaunMT's Rom too, but i needed the space for the multiuser and apps. Seemed quicker.

[B-Man]

How is the TWRP install version of your ROM going?